Miracles of Life

Some of the many miracles performed by Jesus.

Learn about the miracles as told by those directly affected by those miracles.

After highlighting some of the miracles performed by Jesus, the drama follows through to the arrest, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.

An easily staged drama for Easter or at any time of the year.

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Cast:  13 speaking, 20 non-speaking

•  (assuming all scenes are included – see Set & also Special Instructions below)
  13 speaking
  Amos (narrator)
  Blind Man
  Shemer
  Bartimaeus
  Elizabeth
  Mark
  Lazarus
  Miriam
  Mary
  Maximus the centurion
  Barabbas
  Jesus
  Mary
  Martha
• up to 20 non-speaking or offstage voices

Bible Reference: Luke, John

Set:  bare unless otherwise desired

• Scene I – Help For The Blind Man
  - Blind Man
• Scene II – Shemer The Leper
  - Shemer
• Scene III – Blind Bartimaeus
  - Bartimaeus
  - Voice of Jacob
  - Voice of Simeon
  - Voice of Joanna
• Scene IV – Elizabeth and Jarius
  - Elizabeth
  - Voice of Person 1
  - Voice of Person 2
  - Voice of Person 3
  - Jarius (may be voice)
  - Jesus (may be voice)
  - Peter (may be voice)
• Scene V – The Unseen Jesus
  - Mark
  - Voice of Person 1
  - Voice of Person 2
  - Voice of Person 3
  - Voice of Person 4
• Scene VI – The Raising of Lazarus
  - Lazarus
• Scene VII – Faithful and True
  - Miriam
• Scene VIII – The Light
  - Mary
• Scene IX – The Centurion
  - Maximus
• Scene X – In My Place
  -Barabbas
  - Voice of Pilate
  - Voice of Guard
• Scene XI – Gethsemane
  - Jesus
  - Peter (non-speaking)
  - James (non-speaking)
  - John (non-speaking)
  - Voice of 1st Theif
  - Voice of 2nd Thief
  - Maximus (may be voice only)
• Scene XII – At The Tomb
  - Mary
  - Martha
  - Jesus

Lighting:  spots to highlight certain actors

Sound: wireless mics if available

Song: 

• Songs (suggested, optional, please support writers and performers):
• I Walked Today Where Jesus Walked
• Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
• Christ The Lord Is Risen Today

SFX:   none

Costumes: standard

Props: none

Special Instructions:

• this drama may be easily reduced in length since each scene is standalone, simply delete individual scenes.
• Any number of extra actors can be used, try to keep the actors with speaking parts further upstage in order to make their appearance more impacting.
• Most scenes can be done as monologues with offstage voices used where there are more than one role in the scene.
• SCENES: The entire drama is played continuously as one act with no breaks in between. Lights are used to move from one scene to another.
• Actors not directly involved in the scene must take care that their presence adds to, (and does not take away from), the action of the scene.

Time: 100 (if all scenes used)

Scene I – Help For The Blind Man
- Blind Man

Scene II – Shemer The Leper
- Shemer

Scene III – Blind Bartimaeus
- Bartimaeus
- Voice of Jacob
- Voice of Simeon
- Voice of Joanna

Scene IV – Elizabeth and Jarius
- Elizabeth
- Voice of Person 1
- Voice of Person 2
- Voice of Person 3
- Jarius (may be voice)
- Jesus (may be voice)
- Peter (may be voice)

Scene V – The Unseen Jesus
- Mark
- Voice of Person 1
- Voice of Person 2
- Voice of Person 3
- Voice of Person 4

Scene VI – The Raising of Lazarus
- Lazarus

Scene VII – Faithful and True
- Miriam

Scene VIII – The Light
- Mary

Scene IX – The Centurion
- Maximus

Scene X – In My Place
-Barabbas
- Voice of Pilate
- Voice of Guard

Scene XI – Gethsemane
- Jesus
- Peter (non-speaking)
- James (non-speaking)
- John (non-speaking)
- Voice of 1st Theif
- Voice of 2nd Thief
- Maximus (may be voice only)

Scene XII – At The Tomb
- Mary
- Martha
- Jesus

Time: 100 minutes (if all scenes are used)

Sample of script:

Introduction

(The crowd, made up of all actors except Amos, comes on stage, milling around, showing signs of hurt, pain, and illness. Amos enters, looks around, frowns, and speaks.)

Amos: Sickness, injury, illness, infirmity—all around us! (Thinks, shakes head.) Seems not much has changed since I last stood here with my mentor and friend, the good Doctor Luke. No, not much at all has changed.

(Pauses, looking downstage as if acknowledging someone speaking.)

Sorry, I might introduce myself… I am Doctor Amos, friend and fellow worker with Doctor Luke.

Doctor Luke… he who collected the data, analyzed all, and wrote it down that we might all know the truth of the Messiah, Jesus, the Christ.

I was privileged to study medicine under Doctor Luke, a medical mind without equal in all the land! But more, I was honored and forever blessed that Doctor Luke introduced me to the Savior, Jesus Christ—the one who died for me.

(Looks downstage as if acknowledging someone speaking.)

How could I be introduced to a dead person, you ask? Well, the fact is… Jesus did die. He was crucified. Three days later, He rose from the dead, and He lives.

(Looks downstage, acknowledges another unspoken question, smiles, and nods.)

I agree… a miracle… defying medical understanding… hard to believe, indeed! But nonetheless true!

And I, a man of science, like the renowned Doctor Luke before me, testify to the proven truth that He lives even today.

(Looks downstage as if acknowledging another question.)

Without question, a miracle! But you must understand that the Christ was, and is, the very Son of God! And throughout His earthly life, Jesus performed untold miracles…

(Blind Man moves downstage from the crowd. Amos points to him.)

See him… he knows firsthand about the miracles of Jesus Christ!

Scene I – Help for the Blind Man

(Blind Man speaks:)

Eleemosune (pronounced el-eh-ay-mos-oo'-nay). Tuphlos (pronounced toof-los’).

Alms! Blind man! Eleemosune! Tuphlos! Alms! Blind man!

These words shaped my entire existence. “Help for the blind man!”

(Blind Man recounts his encounter with Jesus, detailing the miraculous healing. The crowd reacts, elders challenge him, his parents withdraw in fear, and he is ultimately cast out of the temple. Jesus finds him and asks if he believes in the Son of Man. He responds with faith, and Jesus confirms his identity. The Blind Man falls to his knees, worshiping Him.)

(Blind Man steps back into the crowd. Lights up on Amos.)

Amos Reflects

Amos: A blind man given back his sight! Can you imagine what it would be like—to see the world, which all your life you could only dream about… imagine…

Suddenly, before you in glorious colors! What a miracle! To go from being an outcast to a celebrity! From despised to blessed!

(Shemer, the leper, moves downstage.)

Despised, as was Shemer, the Samaritan!

(Lights down on Amos.)

Scene II – Shemer the Leper

(Shemer speaks, recounting his life as an outcast due to leprosy. He describes the despair, the rejection, and the hopelessness until Jesus arrives. Hearing of Jesus’ past healings, Shemer and the other lepers cry out for mercy. Jesus tells them to show themselves to the priests, and as they go, they are healed. Nine rush to the temple, but Shemer alone returns to Jesus, falling at His feet in gratitude.)

Shemer speaks:
We were standing there by the Gate, waiting as we always did, hoping that someone would toss a little food, perhaps there may even be someone so generous as to throw a small coin. Thomas and Phillip, they, being the biggest and the most aggressive, found the best spots, as near to the gate as they dared go. The rest of us, ten in all, jockeyed for position
We looked a forlorn lot, and that indeed we were. Dressed in torn clothing, our hair unkempt, the lower part of our faces obscured, whenever someone came in sight, crying out, "tame', tame"', (pronounced taw-may), "Unclean, unclean"! Our look and the cry was as required by the law handed down to Moses and Aaron by Yahweh for those of us judged unclean.
“Tame”!
How that word generated terror in the very hearts of those who spoke the word!
Unclean!
Even little children, when they heard the word spoken knew instinctively that we, the lepra, (pronounced lep-rah), must be avoided. We were the lepers, the defiled, we must live alone; we must live outside the camp, outside the walls of the city.
As for me, I was doubly afflicted. I, Shemer, the Samaritan, was a foreigner in this land. Having contracted this disease while working here, I was now without a home, unable to return to Samaria where, as a lepra, I was no longer welcome.
Shemer! Some name, some heritage! It was my ancestor of the same name who was the original owner of the hill on which the city of Samaria was built! Shemer! The name meant “preserved"! Preserved indeed! To what? For what? Neither name, nor position, nor wealth meant anything now. As a tame' lepra, an unclean leper, I would live my life as an outcast, a man without reason to live.
Some were worse than I. Ezra's disease was in an advanced state, his hands a mass of whitened flesh, reminiscent of the winter frost on my beloved Samaritan hillsides. Others, like Paul, had little more than boils and a rash, still he was an outcast, as much as Ezra.

Scene II – Blind Bartimaues

Bartimaeus: It’s true you know, all true. You are looking at a blind man who can see. I was born blind, and for most of my life, I sat by the side of the road and listened as the world passed me by. Most people ignored me, as if I wasn’t there. Some stopped to offer pity, they meant well but sometimes I felt worse after they stopped to chat, although I gladly accepted their alms. But then there were those who treated me like….a person. They connected me with the real world. Jacob would always stop and talk on his way to and from Jerusalem. Jacob had his own troubles, he was poor and had a big family to care for…but he always had a word for me……

(Jacob’s offstage voice is heard, Bartimaeus lowers his head and then raises it again, eyes closed as he recalls when he was the blind man and Jacob was speaking)

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